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John Addison Fordyce
American dermatologist, born February 16, 1858, Guernsey County, Ohio; died June 4, 1925.
Associated eponyms:
Brooke's epithelioma
A usually benign skin disease most commonly occurring on the face, around the eyelids and on the scalp.
Fordyce's disease
Enlarged ectopic sebacous glands in the mucosa of the mouth and genitals.
Fordyce's lesion
A disorder commonly seen in the elderly, characterized by multiple, spherical, reddish to black, elevated lesions rarely over 4 mm in diameter, which usually follow the course of the scrotal veins.
Fox-Fordyce disease
A rare, chronic disease similar to prickly heat in which itchy follicular papules are present in the axillae, areola of the breast, umbilicus, pubic area, and labia majora.
Biography:
John Addison Fordyce graduated in medicine in 1881 at Chicago Medical College and then settled in Hot Springs, Arkansas as a practitioner. In 1886 he went to Europe, devoting himself to studies of dermatology under Moriz Kaposi (1837-1902) in Vienna, Ernest Henri Besnier (1831-1909), Jean Baptiste Emil Vidal (1825-1893), and Jean Alfred Fournier (1832-1915) in Paris. In 1889 he settled as a specialist in dermatology and syphilis in New York, taught as instructor and assistant professor of the discipline from 1889 to 1893 at the New York Polyclinic, then as professor at Bellevue Hospital College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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